The Erotic Arts. Limited edition with a signed silkscreen by Allen Jones. First edition.

Jones, Allen (born 1937), artist; Peter Webb, author

Published by London: Secker and Warburg, 1975

About this Item

8vo. , 16.7 x 24.3 cm. , 514 p., publisher's binding, full green morocco basane, spine with 4 bands, author, title and edges gilt (without slipcase). First edition. of 126 deluxe copies (ex. no. 100), with a 14-color silkscreen by Allen Jones, justified, dated and signed in pencil. The David Hockney engraving is lacking.Allen Jones (United Kingdom, 1937) is a British pop artist renowned for his provocative sculptures, paintings, and lithographs that explore themes of sexuality and the human form. His controversial works, such as 'Hatstand,' 'Table,' and 'Chair,' feature female figures as furniture, challenging societal norms and sparking debates on objectification in art. .Painter and sculptor Allen Jones was a seminal?and controversial?member of the British Pop art movement; he's renowned for highly sexual figurative works that raise questions about the representation and objectification of women. Jones rose to infamy in the 1960s with a series of sculptures that depicted women as furniture, posed for submission and clad in fetishwear. Feminists derided these pieces, yet the female form remained Jones's primary subject. He has made photographs?notably of Kate Moss in a gold breastplate of his design?and stylized oil paintings, watercolors, and prints that reference fashion, dancing, and cabaret. Jones has exhibited in London, Zürich, Hong Kong, Shanghai, St. Louis, and Lisbon. His work sells for millions on the secondary market and belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Stedelijk Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Nagaoka Museum, among other institutions.Peter Webb is a lecturer in Canadian literature at McGill University. He has published journal and book articles on Sara Jeannette Duncan, Timothy Findley, and Tom Thomson, and is writing a book-length study of war fiction entitled Shattered Lines: War in the Canadian Novel. He is a co-applicant member of the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) research group.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Erotic Arts. Limited edition with a signed silkscreen by Allen Jones. First edition.
• Publisher: London: Secker and Warburg
• Publication Date: 1975
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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  • Books with Original Graphics